Note 528d — JOURNAL TO STELLA (continued 12)
Reading edition
The Examiner (vol. iii. No. 35) said that Swift—“a gentleman of the first character for learning, good sense, wit, and more virtues than even they can set off and illustrate”—was not the author of that periodical. “Out of pure regard to justice, I strip myself of all the honour that lucky untruth did this paper.”